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How to use contractor in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Contractor means a person or company that builds or improves buildings or structures. Example: “The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.”

Examples of contractor by meaning

nounA person or company that builds or improves buildings or structures.

  • Two days later, walking beyond the usual limit of the conventional promenade, Carrados reached a rough wooden hut such as contractors erect during the progress of their work.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards...

nounA person hired to do a job on a business contract, as opposed to a permanent employee.

  • I'm glad I'm a highly-paid contractor.1994, Scott Adams, Dilbert

More sentences with contractor

  • The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.From the entry batch
  • The contractors installed a new tank with gorgeous fish and corals.From the entry tank
  • He got caught double-dipping by billing the government directly as well as the primary contractor.From the entry double-dip
  • Their bathroom renovation contractor did some beautiful tilework in their master bath.From the entry tilework
  • The contractor was bonded with a local underwriter.From the entry bond
  • Work on the new high-rise ground to a halt as contractors tried to deal with all the red tape.From the entry grind to a halt
  • The contractor followed the architect’s specifications.From the entry specification
  • The judge tossed out her testimony when it came to light that she was getting paid as a contractor by the defendant.From the entry toss out
  • It should lowball its contractors and force them to accept half payment, he said.2025 February 19, Tom Nichols, “Who Is Running the United States, Musk or Trump?”, in The Atlantic. From the entry lowball
  • VolkerFitzpatrick and its contractors have pulled out all the stops to get the job done.2024 January 24, Peter Plisner, “Rising to the University Challenge”, in Rail, number 1001, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media…. From the entry pull out all the stops
  • “The construction of the building has also offered us opportunities to employ local contractors in the community.”2023 May 16, “Indigenous-led projects support food sovereignty, food security in B.C.”, in BC Gov News. From the entry T'it'q'et
  • As of May 12, Crossrail was liaising with contractors to enable physical work at stations to restart.2020 May 20, “Network News: Clas 345s finally able to serve Heathrow Airport”, in Rail, page 15. From the entry liaise
  • He called the contractor and ordered a replacement headstone with a new inscription.2020, Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji, Faber & Faber Ltd, page 227. From the entry headstone
  • The contractor joked that his secretary would give it the high level of attention it deserved.2016 April 7, Thami J. Khalil, Faith, Growth and Success, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN. From the entry analphabet
  • Waddaya want, he sounds like a sales guy whose main customers are contractors.2005 September 16, PipeDown, “PRICE PER FIXTURE”, in pdaxs.services.plumbing (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Apr 2026. From the entry bias
  • The prime contractor is then required to incorporate this pretendered work into his project schedule.1980 September 8, H. N. Ahuja, Successful Construction Cost Control, John Wiley & Sons, page 177. From the entry pretender
  • Redhandedness is also an instrument a contractor employs to keep us in submission.1971, Report: Nigeria Board of Inquiry into the Affairs of the Amalgamated Dockworkers Transport and General Workers' Union, page 32. From the entry redhandedness
  • It provides the facilities and then it leases the cafeteria to a private contractor.1937, United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee, Navy Department Appropriation Bill for 1938, Hearings..., page 168. From the entry cafeterial
  • Contractors hire subcontractors, who hire subcontractors of their own.2025 June 3, Cullen Murphy, “Feudalism Is Our Future: What the next Dark Ages could look like”, in The Atlantic. From the entry sub
  • Contractor Balfour Beatty is working around the clock to repair the structure, with a piling rig brought from Inverness.2023 May 31, Paul Clifton, “Network News: NR removes unsafe abutment from Nuneham viaduct”, in RAIL, number 984, page 26. From the entry piling rig
  • He said the council would use all its powers to hold both HS2 and its contractors to account.2021 May 19, “Network News: Council to monitor HS2 concrete plant”, in RAIL, number 931, page 22. From the entry hold to account
  • Contractors were only able to reach the site after cutting through thick vegetation and abseiling down the slope on ropes.2020 September 9, Paul Clifton, “Heavy rainfall causes landslip in Hampshire”, in Rail, page 11. From the entry abseil
  • Crossrail is working with its contractors to enable physical works at stations to get back up and running.2020 May 20, Richard Clinnick, “Class 345s finally able to serve Heathrow Airport”, in Rail, page 15. From the entry up and running
  • Some of them had the blue badges that identified them as government employees, or as contractors called them, "govvies".2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 126. From the entry govvy
  • To present myself, I gave the contractor my business card.2016 April 7, Thami J. Khalil, Faith, Growth and Success, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN. From the entry analphabet
  • The contractor would first preinspect the area (preparatory inspection) to make sure that the subsurface is clean and free from defects.2010, Barbara J. Jackson, Construction Management JumpStart. From the entry preinspect
  • The essential idea is that parties should enter the market, choose their contractors, set their own terms and agree a bargain.2005, Paddy McNutt, Law, economics and antitrust: towards a new perspective, page 59. From the entry agree
  • Operator shall engage or retain only such employees, Secondees, contractors, consultants and agents as are reasonably necessary to conduct Joint Operations.2005, Charlotte J. Wright, Rebecca A. Gallun, “Appendix A: AIPN 2002: Model Form International Operating Agreement”, in International…. From the entry secondee
  • “The world is simply a better place because of the United Nations,” says Duane Kessler, a local contractor.2001 August 27, Lin Alder, “Utah town goes ‘U.N. free’”, in High Country News, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2024. From the entry Duane
  • Newspapers pointed at greedy contractors who used shoddy materials, slipshod methods and the help of corrupt officials to bypass building codes.1999 August 22, Johanna McGeary, “Buried Alive”, in Time. From the entry slipshod
  • General purpose of materialman's lien statutes is to give contractors a lien that is unprimeable by subsequently entered consensual mortgage agreements.1999, “C.A.6(Ky.) 1996”, in West's Federal Practice Digest, volume 77, number 4, West Publishing Company. From the entry unprimeable
  • It almost always happened that they went native and began to represent the contractor rather than the government.1989, Arthur Ernest Fitzgerald, The Pentagonists, page 204. From the entry go native
  • Our contractor came to us fresh from putting an overroof (raised on 2 x 4 furring) on another old stone house.1988, Old-House Journal, volume 16, number 5, page 51. From the entry overroof
  • Any material excavated outside the payline is defined as overbreak, and a contractor is not paid for excavating that material.1981, Geological Survey Professional Paper - Volume 831, Part 3, page C-11. From the entry payline
  • In any event, the first time the homeowner comes in contact with the contractor is when the job is actually performed.1959, Weekly News Letter, volumes 1-2. From the entry suede-shoe operator
  • Leicester: The £22 million contract to rebuild the station will have to be retendered by Leicester City Council, because only one contractor submitted a bid.2025 March 19, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Midlands”, in RAIL, number 1031, page 26. From the entry retender
  • Doing so will allow defense contractors to build out new manufacturing capacity without the risk of Congress scaling back arms purchases from year to year.2023 February 9, The Kiplinger Letter. From the entry build out
  • For such a strategy to work we needed thousands of contractors to up sticks and leave and I never thought that was going to happen.2012 November 2, Philip Ross, Freedom to Freelance: Beginning the Fight against IR35, 3rd edition, [Raleigh, N.C.]: Lulu, →ISBN, page 158. From the entry up sticks

Meaning of contractor

  1. noun A person or company that builds or improves buildings or structures.
  2. noun A person or company that performs specific tasks like electrical or plumbing work in construction projects.
  3. noun A person or company hired to maintain existing facilities like air conditioning systems, groundskeeping, etc.

Full definition of contractor

Questions about contractor in a sentence

How do you use contractor in a sentence?
Contractor is used as a noun. For example: “The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.”
What is a short sentence with contractor?
“I'm glad I'm a highly-paid contractor.”
What does contractor mean?
Contractor means a person or company that builds or improves buildings or structures.

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